5+ years of experience validating automotive embedded software for ECU diagnostics, bootloaders, software flashing, FOTA updates, and cybersecurity, including UDS, Secure Boot, Flash Bootloader, and ECU cybersecurity features. Strong CAN and CAN FD protocol knowledge, including arbitration, error handling, error counters, and bus-off detection and recovery, with hands-on CAN fault injection and physical layer validation (bus shorts and opens, missing nodes, babbling idiot, bit timing, baud rate tolerance, termination, and bus load analysis).